British Pugwash Newsletter October 2016 Topics include: New Chair of British Pugwash; Emerging technologies and the nuclear debate; COMEST and robotics; Student/Young Pugwash: first annual conference; Climate change and the Global Energy Calculator
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British Pugwash Annual Report 2015
Published on 19th July 2016 in Trident, Climate Change and Energy Policy, NPT, Annual reports, BRINDI, Chemical and Biological Weapons, Ethics of Science, Remote Control Weaponry, Recently published
Key topics: developments on the international disarmament scene with major implications for British Pugwash; Trident update; the 2015 NPT Review Conference; the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI); science and ethics, including autonomous weapons; chemical weapons; UK and European energy policy.
Warwick Pugwash Society and Warwick Politics Society
Published on 11th February 2016 in Ethics of Science, Remote Control Weaponry, Student Young Pugwash Events
Warwick Pugwash Society and Warwick Politics Society invite you to a joint event: Remote Control and Contemporary Warfare: Implication and Challenges of Drone Wars Tuesday 23rd February 18.00-19.00
British Pugwash Newsletter November 2015
Published on 16th December 2015 in Climate Change and Energy Policy, Trident, Disarmament, NPT, Chemical and Biological Weapons, Ethics of Science, History, Remote Control Weaponry, Newsletters, International Peace & Security, Recently published
Topics include: WMDA Talking Trident and Ambassadors’ programmes; the ethics of developing technologies; Syria’s chemical weapons; Ukraine; relaunching Student/Young Pugwash; global energy calculator
British Pugwash Annual Report 2014
Published on 23rd June 2015 in Trident, Climate Change and Energy Policy, Annual reports, BRINDI, Ethics of Science, Remote Control Weaponry, Recently published
Key topics: developments on the international disarmament scene with major implications for British Pugwash; Trident and the General Election; the Disarmament Institute (BRINDI); science and ethics, including the military robotics debate; UK and European energy policy. Read or download the report (pdf)
The ethics of developing technologies
Published on 19th February 2015 in Current projects – feed, Ethics of Science
Two lines of work, on the ethics of military robotics and the potential development of autonomous weapons, have developed since 2013. These issues are highly relevant to Pugwash’s concern with ethical and humanitarian constraints on the conduct of warfare.